---
type: "Bill"
title: "Sales tax; exempt retail sales of firearm safes during annual Mississippi Second Amendment Weekend holiday."
description: "Sales tax; exempt retail sales of firearm safes during annual Mississippi Second Amendment Weekend holiday."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ms"
legislature: "Mississippi Legislature"
session: "2026"
identifier: "HB 1793"
citation: "Mississippi HB 1793 (2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Finance", "Ways and Means"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Bounds"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 22
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/837c8a32-4013-415f-92bb-a9f0e9406107"
source_url: "http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/2026/pdf/House_authors/Bounds.xml"
source_hash: "988e051302040b5a2fb0c04a468b56df9294f6c187bf676fc5adc14ae7259b0c"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ms"]
---

# Mississippi HB 1793 (2026) — Sales tax; exempt retail sales of firearm safes during annual Mississippi Second Amendment Weekend holiday.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **As Introduced** (filed) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1793IN.htm)
2. **Amendment Report for House Bill No. 1793** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/Amendment_Report_for_HB1793.pdf)
3. **As Passed the lower** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1793PS.htm)
4. **Committee Amendment No 1 (Adopted) (Voice Vote)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/pdf/sam/HB1793_S_Cmte_Amend_01.pdf)
5. **Committee Substitute** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1793CS.htm)
6. **Current version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://billstatus.ls.state.ms.us/documents/2026/html/HB/1700-1799/HB1793SG.htm)

## Votes

- Passage as Amended — **49–2** (pass) · upper
- Adopt Conference Report — **106–5** (pass) · lower
- Passage — **109–3** (pass) · lower
- Adopt Conference Report — **33–16** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- Bounds — primary (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2026-01-28T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Ways and Means `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-24T06:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass Comm Sub `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Committee Substitute Adopted `substitution`
- **2026-02-25T06:00:00+00:00** Passed `passage`
- **2026-02-26T06:00:00+00:00** Transmitted To Senate `introduction`
- **2026-03-04T06:00:00+00:00** Referred To Finance `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** Title Suff Do Pass As Amended `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Amended `amendment-passage`
- **2026-03-17T05:00:00+00:00** Passed As Amended `passage`
- **2026-03-18T05:00:00+00:00** Returned For Concurrence
- **2026-03-19T05:00:00+00:00** Decline to Concur/Invite Conf
- **2026-03-23T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Lamar,Steverson,Barnett
- **2026-03-24T05:00:00+00:00** Conferees Named Harkins,Whaley,Younger
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-27T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Filed
- **2026-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-29T05:00:00+00:00** Conference Report Adopted
- **2026-03-30T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Entered
- **2026-03-31T05:00:00+00:00** Motion to Reconsider Tabled
- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-01T05:00:00+00:00** Enrolled Bill Signed
- **2026-04-06T05:00:00+00:00** Approved by Governor `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/837c8a32-4013-415f-92bb-a9f0e9406107`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Mississippi legislature records).